LETTER: Improve police work

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LETTER: Improve police work

Reader Lee Bird says District Attorney Mike Ramos' campaign of shame is ineffective and does not reduce crime. She says, Johns and drug offenders are easy targets to convict and shouldn't be considered a top priority by law enforcement agencies.

The âStop the Johnâ type of law enforcement presented in âThe price of shame,â (Local, April 6) is not good, sane or productive. Hence, the statement by District Attorney Mike Ramos: about how difficult it is by statistics alone to measure the effectiveness of his campaign of shame. Translation: it is not effective. Given our current attorney general and district attorneyâs desire for higher office, it is easy to see the illogic. Johns, drug users and the like are much easier targets to convict, which gives the DA and police more to crow about without ever reducing crime.

I live in an otherwise nice neighborhood in La Sierra, yet I could easily take the police to at least two crack houses within a 3 block area of my home. Unless the police are blind, they know where they are. I can sit on the front porch of a neighbor and watch âmulesâ â" young boys and girls transporting the drugs to buyers all day. I never see them stopped and questioned by police.

Why? Because of the same reason â" either some of our elected officials are bought, as weâve seen before, with three Democrats indicted for wrong doing. Or, the police are choosing easy targets and letting the big fish get away.

Such tactics in law enforcement are a joke and a waste of taxpayersâ money. I will explain in plain English: You do not stop a snake by stomping its tail; if you want it gone you destroy the head!

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